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Unrecoverable error while installing 12.04

Asked by Larry Williams

Yesterday I downloaded and burned the CD image of 12.04 with no apparent errors. Since I had 25GB of unallocated space on my hard disk, I chose to install 12.04 along with my current 10.04. The installation appeared to go well while I went through the input steps up to and including entering login and password details. Then the installation began. Shortly after, I got an error message. "The installer encountered an unrecoverable error. A desktop session will now be run so that you may investigate the problem or try installing again". After 2 attempts to install and getting the same message both times, I'm at a loss. Has anyone else had this kind of results? What did you find?

Any ideas?

Larry Williams

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded?
Did you burn the CD as slowly as possible?

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Larry Williams (larrywilliams) said : 		#2

Andrew, no, I did not MD5 test the iso, I don't know how, and I didn't make any changes to the cd burner. I just went with whatever the default was.

Larry

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Larry Williams (larrywilliams) said : 		#3

Andrew, Thanks for forcing me to educate myself on how to run an MD5 test. I just did it against the iso file and the sum matched perfectly. (d791352694374f1c478779f7f4447a3f).

Larry

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Larry Williams (larrywilliams) said : 		#4

According to the "SMART Data" in the disk utility of 10.04, my hard disk has 5 bad sectors. The item #5 labeled "Reallocated Sector Count" is in RED and issues a "pre-fail warning".

I knew this disk was getting old and purchased another one about a month ago. I've had no trouble running with 10.04 but the drive is about 10 years old. Apparently, all the problems are in the unallocated area.

I guess I'll have to install the replacement drive now. This item should be closed, too, since the problem appears to be hardware related.

Thanks again Andrew, at least I know now how to run a MD5 sum test.

Larry Williams

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#5

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